Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assure you, in closing, that I have absolutely no personal feeling of unkindness toward you, and shall discuss your record and the methods and ideals of the political school in which you were brought up entirely apart from your personality as a man, a father and a follower of Christ...
...short time before the Nobile dirigible Italia plunged to destruction the "magnetic component" was worked out by Professor Aldo Pontremoli, who is now missing on the Polar ice. "He came toward me radiant with joy," said General Nobile, "crying that he had finished the calculation at last. He told me the figure, which, fortunately, I can still remember. Whoever is acquainted with these scientific problems will realize the immense value of this discovery...
...effectiveness of Japan's coercive attitude toward the Chinese Nationalists was impaired when they received de facto U.S. recognition, three weeks ago, and was still further impaired last week when Britain's Government concluded with the Nationalists an amicable settlement of British damages suffered during the so-called "Nanking Outrage" (TIME, April...
...meantime the explorers will have set up the six houses now stored on the City of New York. Using this village as a base, they will push by airplanes and sledges toward the South Pole, establishing camps 100 miles apart. From these, they can fly over a considerable portion of Antarctica's 5.000,000 square miles, studying many a curious problem. Geologists will have hunted fossils. Astronomers will have gazed at the beautiful aurora australis, southern counterpart of the aurora borealis (northern lights). Cameramen Willard Vander Veer and Joseph T. Ruckner will have filmed scenes for a gripping...
Pathfinder. Explorer Byrd pioneers for Science. For glory, adventure, curiosity, many another man has pushed toward the poles. Among them...